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TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 5, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Basketball
Today
■ Peach County at Warner
Robins, 6 p.m. (Note: This
denotes a location change.)
■ Northside at Westside. 6 p.m.
■ Westfield at Stratford. 6 p.m.
Thursday
■ Dutchtown at Northside, 6
p.m. (Note: Originally scheduled
for Friday.)
Friday
■ Perry at Warner Robins, 7
p.m. (Note: Awaiting - per boys
head coach Chip Malone - word
on probable reschedule.)
■ Westfield at Trinity Christian
tournament, teams and times to
be determined.
Saturday
■ Northside at Perry, 6 p.m.
(Note: This game rescheduled
for Jan. 20, 2007 per Lady
Eagles head coach Cassandra
Willson.)
High school wrestling
Friday
■ Houston County, Northside
and Perry at Baldwin tourney,
5 p.m.
High school swimming
Today
■ Warner Robins at Bearcat
Bash in Bainbridge, 9 a.m.
■ Houston County at Chatham
County Invitational, 9 a.m.
High school football
Friday
■ Northside versus St. Pius X, 6
p.m. in the Georgia Dome
Saturday
■ Warner Robins versus
Peachtree Ridge. 9 p.m. in the
Georgia Dome
IN BRIEF
Demons playoff tickets
go on sale
Tickets for Warner Robins'
semifinal playoff game Saturday
will go on sale today at 7 p.m. in
the school cafeteria. Beginning
Wednesday at 8 a.m., tickets
can be purchased at the front
office of the school. All tickets
are sls, and are valid for all the
games played Saturday.
Warner Robins Rec to hold
Christmas camp
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department is regis
tering boys and girls ages 7-12
for Holly Days Christmas Camp
to be held Dec. 21 through Jan.
4, 2007 (Christmas holidays
for Houston County Schools),
Monday-Friday. 7:30 a.m.-5:30
p.m. except Dec. 25 and Jan.
1, 2007. Each day. accord
ing to a release, will be full
of games, songs and seasonal
crafts. Bring sack lunch each
day: drinks and snack will be
provided. Experienced camp
counselors, campers are well
supervised, structured program.
The cost for the entire program
is $75 for city residents: sllO for
county residents and $l4O for
out-of-county.
Call the department at 478-
929-6946 for more information.
YMCA offers special
sign-up promotion
The YMCA is currently offer
ing a special promotion where
they are giving away one free
month of gym membership to
all new members. The family fit
ness center offers: gymnastics,
jiu-jitsu, fit kidz, dance, parent's
night out and mother’s morning
out and much more. A fam
ily membership consists of an
SBS joiner’s fee plus the first
month of S4B. Under the promo
tion, you pay SBS and your first
month of service is free.
The offer will expire Dec. 31.
Perry Youth Wrestling
Club sets registration
The Perry Youth Wrestling
Club will be hold registration
today at 5:30 p.m. in the Perry
High School multi-purpose
building. All students ages 5-
14 are eligible. The cost is S2O
which includes a club T-shirt.
Two for the Dome
Northside rolls; Demons shock Norcross
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
As clear as the path Deonta
Jordan had to make a quar
terback sack in the first
quarter, so
is the wide
highway the
Northside
High Eagle
defense
paved
out for a
return trip
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Northside 34,
Habersham
Central 0
to Atlanta’s Georgia Dome
and the GHSA Class AAAA
semifinals.
Northside shut down
Habersham Central High, a
team that didn’t penetrate
past the Eagle 26-vard-line
on offense, 34-0 Friday at
McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
Northside will take a 13-0
record for the second year in
a row to the Georgia Dome,
where this year the Eagles
take on St. Pius X - a 34-33
quarterfinal winner against
Thomas County-Central - at
6 p.m. on Friday.
Junior running back
Tijuan Green had 29 carries
for 185 yards and two touch
downs, but not one of those
yards came easy against
the visiting Raider defense.
Green would break a big
20-yard plus jaunt here and
there, but was also stopped
close to the line for minimal
gains on several tries.
“They have a pretty good
team,” said Green after the
game. “We understood their
defense, so we went out
there and did the best we
could, and we pulled it out.
Going to the Dome!
“Two years in a row,
See NORTHSIDE, page iB
Houston County unable to get past Roswell
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Against M.L. King Jr., Houston
County jumped to a 21-0 lead cour
tesy of their opponent’s turnovers,
but Friday night against Roswell,
turn about was fair play.
The Hornets took advantage of
two Bears third quarter miscues to
jump to a commanding lead and go
on to win 42-21.
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Westfield and Mount de Sales players battle for a rebound during their
game Saturday in Macon.
Westfield squads fall to Mt. de Sales
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
After days and days of practice,
Westfield’s boys basketball team final
ly saw some game action on Saturday,
and the Hornets came within one
shot of knocking off Mt. de Sales in
Macon.
Not many attempts would fall
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Northside’s Charles McKenzie puts the drop on a Habersham Central player during the
Eagle’s AAAA quarterfinal win Friday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
Roswell 42,
Houston County
21
game and after the extra point, the
Hornets were up 7-0.
Houston County tied the game
midway through the second quarter
for Westfield, though, and the last
one was no different. The Cavaliers
See FALL, page jB
drive of the game
when Dustin
Taliaferro hit PJ.
Beidel for a 24-yard
touchdown strike.
That was the first
of three touchdown
passes thrown by
Taliaferro in the
Mount de Sales boys 49,
Westfield 47; Lady Cavaliers
46, Lady Hornets 26
when Jeff Thompson capped a 78-
yard drive by diving over from the
Roswell 1.
Roswell wasted no time in recap
turing the lead. Taliaferro complet
ed four consecutive passes, the last
a 12-yarder to Daniel Niedzwiecki
to put the Hornets up 14-7 midway
through the second quarter.
The Bears couldn’t recapture the
elan that inspired their first score
and had to punt.
Roswell had spent the first 12 min-
Panthers improve to 3-0
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Perry High’s boys improved to 3-0 Saturday as the Panthers with
stood the challenge of county rival Houston County High 71-62 at
Fluellen came out as the scoring leader with 14 points, but one point
behind was Kameron Felder with 13. Roderick Jones was a major
impact player in the second half, finishing with 11 points while Antonio
Hubbard had a strong first half to tally nine. Eric Askew chipped
See IMPROVE, jB
Lady Bears edge Perry girls
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Brittany Torain and Chanel Crosskey drained long jumpers in a sec
ond-quarter push that led Houston County High’s girls basketball team
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Houston County’s double inside threat, Tonia Williams and Kourtney
Thomas, each scored eight.
For Perry, Kim Burgess had 14 points and Ashley Roberts had 11.
See EDGE, page yB
utes of the game trying to develop
a running game. When the Hornets
realized the best route was through
the air, they wasted no time exploit
ing the Bears secondary.
Taliaferro completed three-of-four
passes for 61 yards including his last
touchdown pass of the game to Will
Naclerio for 24 yards.
Roswell led 21-7 at the half.
Actually, things looked good for
Houston County at the beginning
See PAST,page iB
Perry 71,
Houston
County 62
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Lady Bears
49,Lady
Panthers 44
SECTION
B
By JAMES TIDWELL
Journal Staff Writer
When Warner Robins
head coach Bryan Way took
over the Demons program
in 2004, the
squad was
coming off
its first non
playoff sea
son for the
first time in
many years.
Way
Warner Robins
14, Norcross 3
promptly guided Warner
Robins back into the post
season as the Demons rolled
to a state championship.
After a disappointing early
playoff exit last year, Way
faced a daunting gantlet
this year in returning the
Demons back to the Georgia
Dome for the second time in
three years.
Warner Robins took a
big step last week as the
Demons rolled past GHSA
Class AAAAA No. 2 Camden
County 27-7 in the second
round of the state playoffs.
Warner Robins would have
to do one better this week
as unbeaten Norcross, the
No. 1 team in the state and
No. 19 team in the country,
stood in the way.
Demons’ fans should
clear their calendar, a date
Saturday in the Dome
awaits.
Warner Robins took a first
half lead and never trailed
as the Demons held on for
a 14-3 win to advance to the
Class AAAAA semifinals.
The Demons improve to
9-4 and will face Peachtree
Ridge, a 12-9 victor over
Stephenson, at 9 p.m. at
See DEMONS, page iB
home.
Coach Brett Hardy once
again shuffled players in
and out of the game - some
times five at a time - and
the result was a balanced
scorebook at the end. Jared
to a 49-44 win against Perry
High Saturday in Perry.
Torain had 14 points and
Crosskey scored 11. All of
Crosskey’s points came in
the first half and from her
reserve role.